Certificate of Title

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

In most cases you will receive an email with the item/s you have requested attached as a PDF file/s. You can click on the attachment/s to view, print or save to your computer.

If the item you have requested is larger than 9.5 MB – you will still receive an email but with a Download Link to click on to allow you to view, print or save the item to your computer. This link will, in most cases, have an active life of 14 days and then will cease to work.

We now use Digital Titles instead of Paper Titles as the Register Record for new parcels of land. As the sketch of the land was previously hand drawn onto the paper Title, these are no longer available on the Digital Title.

Sketch information, showing the legal boundary and survey dimensions, is now included on the Survey Plan or Strata Plan as a scanned image.

Landgate maintains the official register of land ownership and survey information for the Western Australian State Government. This means that it is a public register and all land information contained in it is available to everyone.

If you order a copy of a Certificate of Title online you can search the Land Register yourself using the street address. If you don't know the full address, you can start by entering just the street name.

Through our public counters, you can also search for a Title using the lot on plan number, the registered owner's name or the Volume and Folio number.

Mortgages are not automatically discharged when a home loan is paid off.

You have paid stamp duty to have a Mortgage up to a certain amount registered against your property. Later, if you borrow more money (up to the original amount stamped) from the same bank and use the same property as security, you won’t need to pay that stamp duty again.

However, you can lodge a Discharge of Mortgage document with us to remove any Mortgages for loans you’ve paid off.

This is to advise that something is in the process of being lodged or happening with the Title. It may take up to 6 weeks for ownership information to be updated online from the time of document lodgement. You may need to order another copy of the Title at a later date to see the details of the dealing.

Upon the death of one party the land does not automatically go to the remaining partner unless stated in the will.

It also means that two or more people can hold the land in undivided shares. For example Mary Jones has 1/3 share and Robert Jones has a 2/3 share of the land. Both can transfer their shares to each other or someone else.